I am 24 years old and have been a
Christian for almost four years. I live in Hopkins, Minnesota, U.S.A. I work as
a banker, but my real passion is to live for and love the great God and my
Savior the Lord Jesus Christ.

I surrendered my life to God
after a conversation with a friend from my college. He told me of Godís
sovereignty and his plan of election. My mother raised as a Bible believer my
whole life, but I went seriously away from God when I began to drink alcohol,
smoke marijuana, curse and was totally living for pleasure and self. During
these times God was working on me. I hated what I was doing, but yet got a sick
pleasure out of it. I would pray for deliverance, but it wouldnít come until I
received a transforming knowledge of the truth. When I heard about
predestination and justification by grace through faith in God through the Lord
Jesus Christ I came to a peace with God. I was driving down the street and I
realized the truth of being justified and I had wonderful peace. I surrendered
myself to God. Then I began to learn more of the reformation doctrines of grace
and faith and sola scriptura (the Bible alone and nothing added). These
nourished my soul, but I knew there was more.

Then I came in contact with
another friend from college and he told me about the apostolic doctrines that
were restored to the church through a promise of God in the book of Malachi. I
began to study these doctrines and came to know that the Church had been
restored to the apostolic fathersí faith. I rejoiced greatly over this. I came
to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost that I might be led into all truth. I
later was baptized in water in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this
experience I came to lose many of my reformation brothers, but thank the Lord I
got new brothers (and sisters) who believe in the restoration doctrines.

As I walked with God I learned
more and more about him. This is a way he has given me his love. He opens
himself up to me and shows himself to me. He unveils himself to me and then
unveils me. He shows me who I am and who he wants me to be. As Jesus said, "When
the Spirit of truth is come it will guide you into all truth and show you things
to come." I rejoice and delight in learning more about Godís plans
for the Church and the earth and how he will show himself more and more.

I was later made aware of the
Five-fold ministry. I did not really know of it, but it seemed that the Lord led
me to it. I just thought that Brother Branham came and went and that was the end
of the ministry. Later I learned that in Godís sovereignty he has the
Five-fold ministry (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers) in
place to bring the maturity of the saints, for the work of the ministry and the
edifying of the body of Christ that we all might come to the unity of the faith
and to the knowledge of the Son of God. Iím thankful that itís a Bible-based
ministry that contends for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Itís
the present tense ministry as the Wife of the Lamb Ďlays in the Presence of
the Son to ripení and come to full maturity.

We are living in a truly unique
hour when the Son of Man is being revealed and we are getting to know Jesus
Christ our Husband. Christ is preparing his Bride for the Rapture through the
word he has sent to us. The Lord has taught us (the Church) that we are
Scripturally, living in the hour of the Parousia (presence) of the Son of Man.
The Church is laying in the presence of the Son of Man. She is getting to know
Christ the Word more intimately as she looks unto his beauty and majesty.

As I surrender everything to
Christ I learn his love and goodness more and more. I surrendered my life to him
at age 20, but daily I seek to surrender my desires and plans to him. As I do
this I learn to trust and love him continually. I learn that as King David said,
Ďhe delivered me because he delights in me.í The God of heaven and
earth delights in you and me. He gives himself to us. And there is not any
greater gift than God himself. There is no greater joy than to surrender to
Christ and to live daily for him that he might live and speak and work through
us.

Praise, glory, honor and
adoration be unto God and unto the Lamb!

Jason
DeMars9 June 2002

I wanted to
write this testimony to give God the glory for how that brother Gan has been
a blessing to me. All glory goes to our Lord Jesus Christ for this testimony
and not to my dear brother Gan.

Honestly
when I first came across Prophetic Revelation I thought it was strange and
when I began to read I was really disturbed. I thought how can this
man write these things, but I knew there was substance to what he was
saying. The more I read and the more I prayed and searched things out
in the Bible I saw that my thinking about the message of brother Branham was
in error. All I was doing was going from quote to quote to put
together my understanding of the Word of God. I was not in any way doing
what brother Branham himself said to do. "Öif you're a child of
God, you'll stay with the Prophet of this Bible."
I was looking so much at quotes and statements that I could not receive a
spiritual revelation of the word in my heart. Any quote and statement
has to be pointing us to a true understanding of the Bible. So many
times I would just put together a bunch of quotes like a jigsaw puzzle that
was all mixed up.

Basically I
was seeing that I was in error in not making the Bible my absolute, my heart
made the prophet of God my absolute and that is a scary thing to do.
God forgive me for doing that. The more I read the more I realized
that the message told us to get back to the Bible, back to the original and
back to the apostolic fathersí faith. The message is not to turn our
hearts to the Spoken Word books and tapes. Thatís what had happened in
my heart though. Now, my heart and mind is focused on the scriptures
and the Lord Jesus Christ. Thatís what brother Branham dedicated his
life to do, turn peopleís hearts back to the Bible and itís true doctrine
and to have them in a vital union with the Lord Jesus.

There are
many issues that God opened up to my heart through brother Ganís ministry.
As I searched things out in the light of the Bible I could understand more
and more of the truth. The teaching on Revelation 10:7 really blessed
my soul, that the mystery of God is the dispensation of grace wherein God is
dealing with the Gentiles, grafting them into the olive tree. That in
the days of the voice or message of bro. Branham the mystery of God should
be completed. Itís that last act before God turns back to deal with
the Jewish nation through the two witnesses.

Another
truth that enlightened my soul was the typological study of the marriage of
Christ and the Church with Jewish traditions of marriage. Itís amazing
to me to see how the Spirit has unfolded that to us. Brother Branham just
touched on it a little in the Invisible Union sermon, but brother Gan has
really been led by the Spirit to write what he has on ĎThe Marriage of the
Lamb.í It ties together the presence of the Son of man and itís
purpose in this day together really well. I thank God for that.

Something
else that really helped me was how he brought out the different things in
the Seventh Seal sermon concerning rapturing faith and the Seven Thunders.
I took it back to the Bible and prayerfully searched it out and studied it
out and the Lord really brought me to a place of rest in my understanding
concerning that. It definitely lines up with the scriptures and the
revelation that brother Branham received.

What he
wrote on ĎThe Message of the Hourí is very good and really simplified things
for me. Yes, we must respect what God did through brother Branham and
know that he is a vindicate prophet of God. We reverence him for that,
but we cannot lift him up above the place God has given him. Neither
can we lift his message up above the Bible. Any message from any messenger
has to point us back to the Bible. Truly that is what brother Branham
has done. He hasnít given us another Bible consisting of quotes and
sermons, but he has brought a living message, a revelation of and from
Christ Jesus in order to get us back to the Bible and to bring out mysteries
contained in the Bible.

What was
written on the Serpentís Seed and the Original Sin really answered some
questions for me too.

I thank God
that truly the five-fold ministry does consist of apostles, prophets,
evangelists, pastors and teachers. I believe that brother Gan is
operating in that apostolic ministry. Though many misunderstand him,
he is pointing us to Jesus Christ who is the Word of God. Heís not the
only apostle and he is not what all these other people try to say that he
claims to be one of the seven thunders or the chief apostle. Heís just
a brother in Christ that is seeking to do Godís will in his life. God
has helped me through him and I thank God for that.

I also thank
God for my pastor Don Hoffman and all that he means to me. He has been
a brother to me through thick and thin. I praise God for his stand in the
truth of the word of God. We need all the ministries in the five-fold
ministry and not just pastors, teachers and evangelists, but apostles and
prophets too. They all should be working together for the perfecting
or completion of the saints for the work of the ministry to build up the
body of Christ.

I am so
thankful for the fellowship I have with God in the Spirit. Itís
amazing once the word of God and doctrine of Christ really comes to a
reality in our hearts it should take us to true fellowship with the Lord.
That fellowship is life changing and transforming, as we behold the glory of
the Lord we are changed from glory to glory. I pray that all who read
this will seek that fellowship with God and will love him with their whole
beings and love their neighbor and love and pray for their enemies.
May God keep our hearts right in his word of Truth.